George Russell stunned his personal staff by overtaking Carlos Sainz Jnr via his pit cease.
Mercedes advised Russell he would rejoin the circuit behind the Williams driver when he made his pit cease on lap 39.
He gained time partly due to his dedicated method to the pit lane entrance. The Baku pit lane method is among the quickest on the calendar and Russell handed daringly near the limitations on both facet as he got here in, gaining time.
He additionally picked up time due to a speedy service from his pit crew. He was stationary for simply 2.3 seconds. Russell’s race engineer Marcus Dudley mentioned he’d had a “superb pit cease”.
In consequence, Russell loved the quickest full pit cease time of the whole race. He spent 19.809 seconds within the pit lane. Just one different driver – Nico Hulkenberg – had a time of lower than 20 seconds.
Because of these good points Russell rejoined the monitor narrowly forward of Sainz. That put him on the right track to beat the Williams driver to second place.
It was an particularly spectacular efficiency for the Mercedes driver as he had been unwell for a lot of the weekend and regarded withdrawing on Friday. Group principal Toto Wolff congratulated him after the race, saying: “George, rather well performed. Properly pushed. Flu does good for you.”
“Yeah, not dangerous contemplating I felt like ass all weekend,” Russell replied.
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Russell’s radio messages from his pit cease
Lap: 39/51 RUS: 1’48.001
Dudley
And now we’ve acquired Tsunoda within the pit lane.
Dudley
So George we’ll be field, field this lap. One second behind Sainz on exit. Preset diff entry, diff mid.
Lap: 40/51 RUS: 2’00.578
Dudley
Russell rejoins forward of SainzOvertake accessible on exit. Watch the white strains.
Russell
I believed you mentioned they’d be a second behind?
Dudley
Yeah, it was an excellent pit cease. Hole 1.7 behind.
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